Learn How To Play Golf The Right And Easy Way

HOW TO PLAY GOLF 101 - An
Introduction To The Game Of Golf - - -

We have developed a method for learning
how to play golf the "Right
and Easy Way", and we are calling it "Golf 101".

Why
play golf? Golf is a
wonderful and exciting sport. Playing golf gives you an
opportunity to be outdoors in a beautiful setting with expansive
grassy areas, some mowed very precisely, and some in its natural
state. There is also an abundance of trees, shrubs, and flowers,
along with stone walls and walkways.

There are not many places more beautiful
than a golf course early in the morning with dew still on the grass,
along with a multitude of birds and small animals (on our
home-course we also enjoy deer and milk cows!) beginning a new day.
Many courses have streams, ponds, lakes, and waterfalls within and
outside the boundaries of the playing areas.

Golf Is A Social And Challenging Game

Golf is a sport in which you can have a fun and heart-warming social
experience with companions of your choice, and a golf course is also a
wonderful place to meet new friends!

You can play golf as just a great social interaction and/or take delight in the challenge of becoming very skillful at the game itself. You can play golf your entire life and can always improve upon your ability and skills to play the game.

Obviously there are those who take the game very seriously and play for
high stakes as well as make their living playing the game. Its important
to learn golf the right way!

Golf Has A Downside

There is a downside to the game however. Playing the game can be very intimidating and frustrating for beginners as well as more experienced players.

The vast majority of people learn how to play golf when friends "invite them along" to try the game for the first time. Well-meaning players will teach you how to hold the clubs, hit the ball, and how to swear profusely!

Remember The First Time You Drove An Automobile?

The first experience at playing golf is similar to learning how to drive
a car for the first time, especially if it is a stick-shift or standard
transmission.

The proper way in learning how to drive a car is to study and
learn all the rules, take a written test to make sure you are aware of
all the traffic signs, regulations, penalties and nuances of driving a vehicle.

Then of course the next challenge is to take the physical driving test!
Before you do that you would have driven around a large empty parking
lot with someone showing you the ropes, until you had some confidence
with the act of driving itself.

When you are riding along in a friend's car (which has a standard
transmission) in a busy downtown area and they pull over and ask you to
drive when you have never driven before, is similar to playing golf for the first time!

Golf 101 - The Method

The primary idea of "Golf 101" is to gain a basic understanding about the game before you go to the golf course
for the first time, and have a degree of confidence before playing. It
is very intimidating and humiliating otherwise. Being taught how to play
golf by well-meaning friends is a problem because it is very difficult
to correct bad habits later!

Taking Professional Lessons

Taking lessons from a professional
before playing is a good idea. However, the "Pro"
will usually start you with swinging the golf club and hitting balls
on golf driving ranges, and
charging you anywhere from $75 to $200 or more for a one hour lesson.

There is much more to playing golf
than what you will gain in initial lessons with a professional. I
certainly advocate taking lessons from a qualified professional, but
it needs to be at the right time and under the proper
conditions.

A
beginner golf lesson is necessary to initiate the process of
learning the game.

Golf 101 Concepts

The most important concept in "Golf
101" is that you will learn how to play golf in a very unique way, and
with a vastly different approach to the "Traditional"
learning process.

The "Traditional"
approach to learning the game is to start at the Driving Range with
the driver and irons and begin
to learn the "Golfswing".
Generally the last part of the teaching is the golf
short game and Putting instruction.

Within
the "Golf 101" approach, we teach the basic golf
glossary involved in the game, including explaining elements
of the golf course along with providing actual pictures of those
golf course elements.

Many
questions regarding playing the game for the first time will be
answered up front, including the golf basics. Golf
clubs are discussed
in detail, along with the golf
ball and the many
accessories utilized in playing the game. You will basically learn
how far a ball will travel on average when hit with a
particular club, and why.

The idea is to learn
the putting game first, then the golf short game, followed by
the fairway and approach concepts, and finally the "Golf Long
Game" utilizing the Driver.

Basically the game of golf will be
taught as a "class room environment" first, then the
actual golf game.

Following are the sequential steps to
learning how to play golf the fun way! :

Basic First Steps:

Learn "about"
the game of golf

Understand the
history of the game, including origin of the golf club, balls, and
tees

Gain knowledge
of the basic terminology involved

Understand how
golf etiquette is involved

Have
a basic understanding of the Rules of Golf

Know
what the elements of the physical golf course are and what they look
like

Learn
all about the golf club, how they are made and used

Learn
about the golf ball, tee and the many accessories

All
the above learning is just to understand the golf
basics of how to
golf before you even hold a golf club in your hands! So if you
want to learn how to play golf the easy way from the ground up, and
have a lot of fun in the process, "Golf 101" is for
you!

(See other pages within
this Website about golf tips for beginners)

SEQUENTIAL
STEPS IN LEARNING THE PHYSICAL GAME

Begin
by taking professional lessons and practicing diligently on the
following items in this specific order:

Learning the Putting Game and
become proficient on the Putting Green!

Learn to Chip the ball onto the
Putting Green.

Become proficient at Pitching the
Ball onto the Putting Green.

Get a very good handle on
extracting the golf ball from greenside and fairway Sand Bunkers.

By working on the Driving Range,
become very good at the intermediate game of fairway play; hitting
your longer irons (8-iron thru 5-iron), hybrids and fairway woods
such as the 5-Wood and 3-Wood golf clubs.

Learn to drive the ball off the
Tee, by starting with the 3-Wood and then the Driver.

Play your first nine holes of golf
with your golf instructor!

Be sure to
play from the correct Tee Box for your game! (If you cannot reach
the Greens-In-Regulation, move up to a closer Tee Box for Driving
the ball from the Tee)

In the next segment we will proceed to
learning how to play golf. Stay tuned! (Oh, and by the way, we
are preparing a complete "E-Book" on the subject of "Golf
101", be on the lookout for it!

We hope this article gives you an idea of the sequence on how to play golf the way it should be learned!